For a certain sort of someone, a documentary on Japanese composer-musician Yoshihide Otomo--especially one that features the likes of Yasunao Tone, Yamataka Eye, John Zorn, Christian Marclay, Tatsuya Yoshida, Jim O’Rourke, and Keiji Haino--should be heaven on earth.

Franck Stofer, co-owner the always-interesting Sonore label would seem to be just that sort of someone. Thus, the disappointment evident in his review of Chikara Iwai's new Kikoe is not a good sign concerning this feature-length film. Judging from the review and the trailer below, Iwai takes a quick-cut, pastiche approach that favors sensibility over sense. When it comes to what are, to most, relatively obscure subjects such as noise and electro-acoustic improv, a more linear approach would probably be more edifying.

But then again, those of us who are into this sort of thing will probably watch it no matter what.

(Via the new Sonore blog.)